On Jun 12, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Brian Blais wrote:
> Nick Fotopoulos wrote:
>> This is a bug with how loadmat handles mat-file strings in
>> general. I fixed it in ticket #14 (http://projects.scipy.org/>> scipy/scipy/ticket/14), but it has not yet been checked into SVN
>> (I am not a dev).
>> After backing up mio.py, you can drop the two files attached to
>> the ticket right into your site-packages/scipy/io directory. Let
>> me know if it works for you.
>>> thanks,
>>> this fixes the string problem, but it still crashes on loading any
> struct.
>
Ah, I had never needed structs before, so have never been through
this particular code path. I have reproduced the problem with Matlab-
generated matfiles, so now we know that it's not Octave-specific.
I removed the offending line that causes the crash and it's clear to
me that there's a deeper issue. I poked around for several minutes
and didn't see the root of the problem. Unfortunately, I don't have
time to investigate any more deeply. My thesis deadline looms.
Sorry I can't be of greater help.
Take care,
Nick